Disclaimer: Independent educational project. Not affiliated with Cashfree. Built by Kaushal Khodifad. Data from public sources; figures are estimates.return to portfolio
Disclaimer: Independent educational project. Not affiliated with Cashfree.
Product requirements

PRD - at a glance

Recover the genuinely-recoverable segment, suppress the rest, prove the lift against a control group. Shipped as a Cashfree Relay Skill.

1What it does - the MVP is this pipeline

Every event runs the gauntlet - suppression happens before any contact
Event
failed / abandoned
gate 0
Idempotency
already paid?
↓ suppress
gate 1
Fraud · RiskShield
card-testing?
↓ suppress
gate 2
Consent + reach
allowed to?
↓ suppress
gate 3
Safety + fatigue
sensitive? quiet hours?
↓ suppress
✓ Eligible
Tier 1 or 2
Left alone, logged: fraud · no consent · already paid · sensitive item · serial-abandoner · out of stock · frequency cap · quiet hours
Classify → Tier
reason → T1 / T2
Pick fix + lever
link · EMI · COD (RTO-gated)
Pick channel
voice* · WhatsApp · SMS
Hold-out
control group
Measure
incremental, vs control

* AI voice is gated by value, consent, DND and lawful hours - and ships behind a legal flag. WhatsApp + SMS work without it.

Event ingestion (webhooks)Config UI (thresholds · hours · offers · consent)Role-based accessMerchant dashboardRelay Skill activation

2Goals

North-star
Incremental revenue recovered / month
Control-group measured. No fixed-% promise.
Guardrails - stay at / near zero
double-charge ~0fraud-recovery ~0opt-outcomplaintcannibalizationsuppression audited

3Users

Primary buyer

D2C founder / growth lead

Secondary user

Finance / ops - role-based access (fixes Relay's owner-only limit)

End beneficiary

The genuinely-stuck customer - helped to finish, or left alone

4India compliance - built in, not bolted on

TRAI · transactional vs promotional

Recovery nudges stay transactional.

allowed on DND
SMS link whitelisting (DLT)

Payment links use whitelisted templates.

templates whitelisted
AI voice = telemarketing

Consent + DND + 9am-9pm + approved scripts.

behind legal flag
DPDP Act 2023

Purpose-limited, merchant-scoped, erasable.

ready · in force ~May 2027

Hover any regime for the full rule. Facts web-verified June 2026.

5Build scope

MVP · now
  • Full gate→tier→strategist→attribution
  • WhatsApp + SMS recovery
  • EMI / COD (RTO-gated) levers
  • Control group + incremental
  • Dashboard + RBAC + Relay Skill
Fast-follow
  • Voice GA (post legal sign-off)
  • ML recoverability scoring
  • A/B test script / timing / offer
  • Multi-language + brand voice
Later · out of scope
  • Subscription / mandate recovery
  • RTO reduction
  • AI finance agent
  • Reconciliation · GST/TDS · forecasting

Compliance facts web-verified (June 2026). Demo performance figures are simulated, never guarantees.

↑ Independent educational project by Kaushal Khodifad. Cashfree is a real company in the real-time payment & cart recovery space; this design and the underlying prototype were built by Kaushal as a portfolio study. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or representative of Cashfree's actual product. Data is from public sources. Figures are estimates.

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